Larry Christiansen embarassing me...

As some of you may know, Larry Christiansen, 3 time US Champ, and probably the greatest attacking player the US has ever seen, plays material odds blitz against all comers, and depending on their rating, gives them different material odds. Based on my blitz rating, I get a knight. I thought this combination was absolutely sick, so here you go, Larry C at his finest. If you have any kind of chessbase engine, it should hand the piece odds for you, if not, just take off the b1 knight.

[Event "ICC w11 3 0 u"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2006.10.26"]
[Round "?"]
[White "LarryC"]
[Black "TheShootah"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "3021"]
[BlackElo "1859"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/R1BQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "39"]
[EventDate "2006.??.??"]
[TimeControl "180"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. b3 e6 3. Bb2 c5 4. e3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Be7 6. Be2 O-O 7. Rg1 d5 8. g4 d4 9. g5 Ne4 10. h4 d3 11. Bf1 Nb4 12. Rc1 Nxa2 13. Ne5 Nxc1 14. Qxc1 b6 15. Bxd3 Bb7 16. Qc2 f5 17. gxf6 Nxf6 18. Bxh7+ Nxh7 19. Rxg7+ Kxg7 20. Qg6+ {Black resigns} 1-0

Notice how I went from stone cold winning to having to resign in one move...16..f5??

Originally posted by !~TONY~!
As some of you may know, Larry Christiansen, 3 time US Champ, and probably the greatest attacking player the US has ever seen, plays material odds blitz against all comers, and depending on their rating, gives them different material odds. Based on my blitz rating, I get a knight. I thought this combination was absolutely sick, so here you go, Larry C at hi ...[text shortened]... t from stone cold winning to having to resign in one move...16..f5??

that was a good try, hmmmmm, larry christensen, a better attacking player than bobby fischer, uhhhh no,
you played well tho

Bobby Fischer was clearly a better player, but I think Larry is definitely a better attacking player. Fischer was substantially better in his opening preparation and his technique, but give me a couple of hours and I will dig up Larry getting sick on some top US players, like you have never seen before. The man is a tactical machine, and creative as all get out.

Corkers:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1088541 (Not very subtle here with his plan, is he? Making something out of a symmetrical English)

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1088535 (Anytime you can crush Reshevsky in 28 moves…what an intuitive, brilliant sac)

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1088727 (An awesome win over Spassky. Great vision!)


Bonkers:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1069116 (hehe, What a win!)

(Don't get me wrong - Larry is a great player but I thought these were kind of funny.)

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1088821 Qa5??; Nf6 and Black is fine I believe.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1088557 Eeeeeeek. (How not to play as white in the opening; granted, this was a simul.)

yes im sure but hes not in the same category as Bobby Fischer, in tactics or anything, imho, youre a little bias being as you played christiansen, but thats just me

Haha, I'm not bias because I played him, I have played lots of masters, if you watch this guy play, he's clearly got a gift for ripping peoples heads off. I have never seen any Fischer attacks that compare to some of Christiansens best.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1088609

That one is one of my favorites. So many amazing moves played in that game.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1398825

His absolute destruction of "Wojo".

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1088479

This game contains a combination that is slightly flawed, although very creative and beautiful nonetheless.

Maybe I am building Christiansen up a little bit, but when I look at his games, I am always thinking, "Man...no one plays like this dude does.."

He played Bxh7 in about 1 second after I took on f6 with my knight. Insane.

Originally posted by !~TONY~!
As some of you may know, Larry Christiansen, 3 time US Champ, and probably the greatest attacking player the US has ever seen, plays material odds blitz against all comers, and depending on their rating, gives them different material odds. Based on my blitz rating, I get a knight. I thought this combination was absolutely sick, so here you go, Larry C at hi ...[text shortened]... t from stone cold winning to having to resign in one move...16..f5??

Tony,

This is an interesting game you posted, but I think 12. Rc1 is a typo-- the knight never moved from b1... should it be 12. Bc1 as the move?

Originally posted by Crushing Day
Tony,

This is an interesting game you posted, but I think 12. Rc1 is a typo-- the knight never moved from b1... should it be 12. Bc1 as the move?

Yes-- that would explain--- thanks!

Ouch! Well, at least it took a really, really big punch to knock you out!

Fischer's greatest all-out attacking wins came in his youth imo - in the candidate match and 1972 WC his style was more universal and the best games probably the positional wins. Also, compared to the other WCs, he clearly didn't have an extreme attacking style like Tal, Alekhine, or Kasparov did. (Did!) Also, in the 92 Spassky rematch his best win was the positional first game - although there was a nice attacking game versus a Sicilian as well.

On the other hand, Fischer was regularly playing against people who couldn't be attacked as easily as . . . ~Tony~ 😉

LarryC's elo is 2512, not 3000+

3021 is his ICC blitz rating not his FIDE or USCF rating.

If you read his book rocking the ramparts, he recommends to study 1001 combinations over and over.

He said he got to be so good at attacking by solving those problems until the book fell apart.

LarryC says in his book he lives in California, where exactly did this event take place?